Pollock and fractals and book about recognizing artists

["Clive Murray-White" <clivemw@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>]

Dear VT7,

You're not suggesting that we all start making antique fragments and trying
to pass them off as the real thing just to make a buck or two?

I subscribe to a magazine called Minerva, it specialises in antiquities and
in nearly every issue is something about forgeries, I think the things that
would stump us in our little money making venture would be, A) finding
exactly the right marble that matched the age and came from the right
location for what ever we were making, B) using bronze and copper tools with
metal of the right age in exactly the techniques that were used in those
times, and C) probably most difficult of all, with enough artistic skill so
it really looks like it should!!!

They say its always much easier to forge something modern/contemporary,
because its the period that drives the museum conservation people mad, no
standardised materials or techniques, rarely records kept by artists of
exactly what was used in any work, incomplete records of what they made and
so on. I better not say much more!!!

I think I'd get a bit suspicious if I heard that quite a few recently
"found" Brancusi, Arp, Moore and Noguchi sculptures had turned up.

Clive

Sculptor Clive Murray-White
Cowwarr Art Space
Cowwarr Gippsland Vic. Aus.
Ph: 03 51489321 Fax 03 51489498
E-mail: clivemw@---------------
Web: http://www.cowwarr.com/CliveMurray-White/